Tornado, Lee
- When
- August 11, 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Lee County, Cape Coral
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 5 yd
- Coordinates
- 26.600, -81.970
A short-lived tornado touched down briefly near the intersection of Pine Island Road and Del Prado.
Tornado in Florida, August 11, 1997
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Colorado, August 11, 1997
- Flood in Colorado, August 11, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 11, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 11, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 11, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in Idaho, August 11, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in Idaho, August 11, 1997
- Heavy Rain in Idaho, August 11, 1997
- Hail in Colorado, August 11, 1997
- Hail in Colorado, August 11, 1997
- Waterspout in Mississippi, August 11, 1997
- Waterspout in Florida, August 11, 1997
More
Every storm in Florida in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 1997Warnings in Florida, August 1997
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5613891.